Finivest holding

Fininvest is the holding company of one of the world’s leading media groups with a leadership position in commercial television and cinema, through Mediaset and its subsidiary Medusa, in publishing, through Mondadori, as well as in sport, through A.C. Milan. The Group also holds, together with the Doris Group, an important stake in the Mediolanum Group, one of Italy’s leading companies specialised in banking, insurance and financial services.

Created as a family business, Fininvest subsequently opened up its most important companies to investors (Mediaset, Mondadori and Mediolanum are all listed on the Milan stock exchange) and can today count on the confidence of around 300,000 shareholders, from individual private investors of Italian and international financial institutions.

In the middle of the 1990s, the Fininvest Group conducted an extensive reorganisation process to focus on its core business, media and entertainment, investing over the last twelve years some €17 billion. This strategic decision has also had an extremely positive impact on the Group’s operating profitability (in terms of operating profit as a proportion of revenues) which has increased to more than five times the 4% of 1996.